Martha Craig Daughtrey

Martha Craig "Cissy" Daughtrey (; ;

Notable case

On November 6, 2014, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in DeBoer v. Snyder, upholding same-sex marriage bans in four states in which Daughtrey dissented. This ran counter to rulings by the United States Courts of Appeals for the 4th, 7th, 9th and 10th circuits.

Daughtrey wrote: Because the correct result is so obvious, one is tempted to speculate that the majority has purposefully taken the contrary position to create the circuit split regarding the legality of same-sex marriage that could prompt a grant of certiorari by the Supreme Court and an end to the uncertainty of status and the interstate chaos that the current discrepancy in state laws threatens.

The United States Supreme Court later granted writ of certiorari to the case to review same-sex marriage bans when it previously declined to do so.

Personal life

She is married to Larry Daughtrey, a journalist, and is a lifelong Democrat. Her daughter, S. Carran Daughtrey (b. 1964), her only child, is an Assistant United States Attorney, appearing in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee (one of the subordinate courts to the Sixth Circuit) and currently teaches at Vanderbilt University Law School.